Timothy H. Breen (born September 5, 1942 in Ohio)[1][2] is an American Professor, writer, and an expert on the colonial history of the United States.

[3][4] Breen won the Colonial War Society Prize for the best book on the American Revolution for Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004), the T. Saloutus Prize for agricultural history for his book Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters of the Eve of Revolution, and the Historical Preservation Book Prize for his work Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories, and several prizes for "George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation."

An essay he published on the end of slavery in Massachusetts became the basis for the full-length opera "Slip-Knot" that was produced in Chicago.

[5] Breen is an alumnus of the Rachel Carson Center for Environmental History (Munich).

Breen currently lives in Greensboro, Vermont, where he is currently completing a book entitled "The Farmer and the Aristocrat: American Revolution on Trial."